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copied!<h2>The Basic Issue</h2> <p>The parser is behaving correctly. You are just using the same expressions to parse different types of elements. </p> <h2>Revised code</h2> <p>Here is a snippet, focusing only on returning scraped lists. Once you have the lists, you can format the text table easily:</p> <pre><code>import BeautifulSoup def get_queue(data): # Args: # data: string, contains the html to be scraped soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(data) stable = soup.find('table') header = stable.findAll('th') headers = [ th.text for th in header ] cells = [ ] rows = stable.findAll('tr') for tr in rows[1:-2]: # Process the body of the table row = [] td = tr.findAll('td') row.append( td[0].find('a').text ) row.append( td[1].find('a').text ) row.extend( [ td.text for td in td[2:] ] ) cells.append( row ) footer = rows[-1].find('td').text return headers, cells, footer </code></pre> <h2>Output</h2> <p><code>headers</code>, <code>cells</code>, and <code>footer</code>, cells can now be fed into a <code>texttable</code> formatting function:</p> <pre><code>import texttable def show_table(headers, cells, footer): retval = '' table = texttable.Texttable() table.header(headers) for cell in cells: table.add_row(cell) retval = table.draw() return retval + '\n' + footer print show_table(headers, cells, footer) </code></pre> <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | Artist - | Album | Album | Series | Duration | Type of | Time to | | Title | | Type | | | Play | play | +==========+==========+==========+==========+==========+==========+==========+ | Song 1 | Album 1 | ... | | 5:43 | S.A.M. | ~0:00:00 | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | Song2 | Album 2 | ... | | 6:16 | S.A.M. | ~0:05:43 | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | Song 3 | Album 3 | ... | | 4:13 | S.A.M. | ~0:11:59 | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | Song 4 | Album 4 | ... | | 5:34 | S.A.M. | ~0:16:12 | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | Song 5 | Album 5 | ... | | 4:23 | S.A.M. | ~0:21:46 | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ There are x songs in the queue with a total length of x:y:z. </code></pre>

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